Headless CMS & Content Platforms brand directory

Hygraph

Rank #1 · 16.7% visibility

Hygraph is a GraphQL-native headless CMS and federated content platform that lets teams build, manage, and distribute structured content across any channel via a unified GraphQL API. Its signature Content Federation capability allows developers to connect external REST or GraphQL APIs directly into the Hygraph schema, enabling editorial teams to query product, commerce, and third-party data alongside CMS content without duplication. The platform includes AI-powered features (Developer Copilot, Editor Copilot, Workflow Copilot), built-in DAM, localization, personalization via Variants, and enterprise governance controls.

Contentful

Rank #2 · 15.3% visibility

Contentful is an enterprise-grade, API-first composable content platform and DXP that decouples content management from presentation, enabling teams to create structured, reusable content and deliver it across any channel via APIs. Its product suite includes the Platform (headless CMS core), Studio (visual experience builder), AI Actions (generative AI for content workflows), and Personalization (AI-driven audience segmentation and A/B testing via the Ninetailed acquisition). Backed by a Marketplace of 100+ integrations and a global CDN infrastructure, Contentful is designed for enterprise marketing, product, and engineering teams managing complex, multi-brand, or multi-region digital experiences at scale.

Sanity

Rank #3 · 15.3% visibility

Sanity is a cloud-native Content Operating System built for engineering teams and content creators who need to model, manage, automate, and deliver structured content at scale. Its core components—Content Lake (real-time hosted datastore), Sanity Studio (open-source, fully customizable editor), GROQ query language, and a growing AI layer (Content Agent, Agent Actions, MCP Server)—enable teams to treat content as reusable, AI-ready data rather than static page content. The platform powers web, mobile, e-commerce, and agentic applications from a single structured backend.

Prismic

Rank #4 · 12.7% visibility

Prismic is a cloud-hosted headless CMS and page builder that enables developers to build reusable, code-defined website components ('Slices') via its local Slice Machine tooling, and hands those components to marketers through a visual Page Builder for self-service page creation. It is optimized for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit and serves marketing and development teams at mid-market companies, agencies, and enterprises seeking brand-consistent, autonomy-enabling website workflows.

Storyblok

Rank #5 · 10.7% visibility

Storyblok is an enterprise-grade headless CMS that uniquely combines an API-first, component-based content architecture with a real-time visual editor. It enables development teams to build content-driven experiences with modern frameworks (Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, React, Vue) while allowing marketers and editors to create, manage, and publish content autonomously without developer intervention. The platform supports structured content modeling, multi-locale publishing, omnichannel delivery via REST and GraphQL APIs, an AI Suite for content generation and translation, and a native MCP Server enabling AI agent integration. FlowMotion provides workflow orchestration for automated, multi-step content operations. Storyblok is MACH Alliance certified and integrates with major e-commerce, DAM, search, and personalization platforms.

Contentstack

Rank #7 · 8.0% visibility

Contentstack is a MACH-compliant, API-first headless CMS and Agentic Experience Platform that enables enterprises to manage, personalize, and deliver content across any digital channel. Its core suite spans structured content management, a real-time CDP (Lytics), omnichannel personalization, AI-powered agents and automation, digital asset management, front-end hosting, and enterprise workflow governance—all accessible via REST and GraphQL APIs and a no-code visual interface for non-technical teams.

Strapi

Rank #6 · 8.0% visibility

Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS built on Node.js and TypeScript. It provides developers with a visual content type builder, auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, and complete flexibility to self-host or deploy on Strapi Cloud. Content editors benefit from an intuitive admin panel supporting multilingual content, draft/publish workflows, and a rich media library, while developers can extend the platform via plugins, custom middleware, and the Strapi Market ecosystem.

Payload CMS

Rank #8 · 4.0% visibility

Payload is an open-source, TypeScript-first headless CMS and application framework that installs natively into a Next.js project. Developers define content schemas in code; Payload auto-generates REST and GraphQL APIs, database collections (MongoDB or PostgreSQL), and a fully customizable React admin UI. It supports self-hosting on any Node.js environment — including serverless on Vercel and Cloudflare Workers — as well as managed Payload Cloud hosting. Acquired by Figma in June 2025, Payload is evolving toward powering a tighter design-to-deployment workflow within the Figma ecosystem.

DatoCMS

Rank #9 · 2.7% visibility

DatoCMS is a SaaS headless CMS providing a GraphQL/REST API content platform with a no-code schema builder, structured rich-text editor, modular page builder, visual editing, multi-language support, a global CDN, and an Images/Video API. It is designed for developer-editor collaboration on modern JAMstack and headless web projects.

Directus

Rank #10 · 1.3% visibility

Directus is a composable open-source data platform that wraps any SQL database with instant REST and GraphQL APIs, a visual no-code data studio, granular access control, workflow automation, and digital asset management—enabling developers and non-technical users to collaborate on live data from one shared backend.

Kontent.ai

Rank #11 · 1.3% visibility

Kontent.ai is an enterprise headless CMS and Agentic CMS platform that enables content teams to plan, create, govern, and deliver structured content across any digital channel via APIs. It combines a marketer-friendly authoring interface with developer flexibility, AI-powered agents for workflow automation, and robust governance tooling designed for organizations with complex compliance and multi-brand content requirements.

Builder.io

Rank #12 · 0.7% visibility

Builder.io is a visual development platform composed of two products: Publish (a headless CMS and AI-assisted visual page builder for content and marketing teams) and Fusion (an AI agentic IDE that generates production-ready code from Figma designs, prompts, or existing repositories). The platform connects directly to a team's codebase, design system, and git workflow so that all generated content and code is on-brand, maintainable, and production-ready without manual developer handoffs.